Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

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Don't Bring Your Child to Hollywood [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 73 ] they are near the studio gates they are marketable products. Away from tie studio, in their homes, they become natural and ordinary. It is that side of their lives that is not well known. Perhaps the most amazing home I visited was a modest little cottage away from the Hollywood district, that houses the Johnson family. The children get in your hair, tangle in your shoe laces and crawl into your pockets. Wynonah Johnson, the mother, herself a newspaper woman, watches over this brood of surprising chicks. KENNETH is the oldest. He's sixteen. Then there are Dick Winslow, fourteen, Camilla, eleven, Seesel Ann, seven, Carmencita, five (you remember her as the talented child in "Blue Skies"), and Cullen, "Little Buttercup," two and a half. Cullen's greatest claim to fame is his indestructibility. He has been carried away on the backs of the villain's horses, been snatched up by airplanes, gone through flood, fire and famine and is as cheerful as ever. It is Mrs. Johnson's theory that any child of average intelligence can do anything he wants to do, can express himself in any of the arts if he is allowed enough freedom. The ire of other movie mamas is raised when she says that eighty per cent of the children in any orphanage can act as well as the children now in pictures. She gives her kids absolute freedom. A week in the Johnson home would put you under the care of a nerve specialist, but it certainly wouldn't bore you. Dick Winslow, for instance, plays the xylophone, cornet and drums. He also builds furniture, writes plays and draws pictures. He has interviewed Anna Pavlowa, Elsie Janis, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Carrie Jacobs Bond and numerous other celebrities. He has written the interviews and sold them. Camilla writes poetry (which has been published), and Kenneth, who is going to be an architect, makes the most amazing masks in the Benda manner. They all sew, cook, build, write, paint and play musical instruments. The back yard is taken up with their Packing Box Theater, the smallest show house in the world. A great star gave them their projection machine, another their footlights, but the rest is their own doing. They write their plays, stage them, costume them and build the scenery. Acting, now having become somewhat of a bore, is left to the kids in the neighborhood, who are well paid for their services. When there is a national disaster the kids say "Aw, gee, that's too bad," and then, with brightened faces, "Now we can give a benefit," which they do in the theater. It seats thirty, if they are contortionists and can wrap their knees around their necks. •"PHEY give elaborate dinners composed of ■* their own dishes. A new concoction is tried out three times. If, after having eaten it, you don't turn a pale sea green, it is recorded in the Johnson cook book, an amazing tome full of naive instructions to the chef. Dick Winslow is playing a part with George Jessel in "The Hurdy-Gurdy Man." One set represented a music shop. Dick played every instrument. When he had finished, Jessel looked at him in amazement and said "Look here, you don't juggle, by any chance, do you?" You might imagine that the youngsters have been forced to do all these stunts. Not so. It is their play. They simply express themselves rhythmically and are allowed to experiment. One afternoon Mrs. Johnson came home to find Dick Winslow lying on the floor on a piece of cloth, while Kenneth traced the outline of Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is cuaranteed.